Comments on: Risen Arises

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:00:14 +0000

There is a public patch for Gothic 3 as well that picks up with their devs left off (possibly because of legal issues with the publisher) without the public patch for Gothic 3 it is unplayable IMO. ( actually found it unplayable even with it :P )

Shadowcat “It hammers at my retinas like an evil woodpecker of pure energy”

By: UK_John

UK_John — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:46:26 +0000

Can we all please remember that ALL RPG’s are buggy on release. The only difference between the Elder Scrolls and the Gothic series is that bugs are fixed in the ES RPG’s though modders, (the unofficial patch for Oblivion has over 5,000 bug fixes!), whereas Gothic games actually get patches!

So when it comes to RPG’s can we talk about them patched rather than vanilla? Bugs or no bugs, every Gothic game beats vanilla Oblivion. Only modded Oblivion can compete with the Gothic series, The Witcher, etc.

By: anotherman7

anotherman7 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:29:29 +0000

I've just started playing through Gothic 2 again, and it really is amazing. It has a great open world feeling without feeling empty, unlike The Elder Scrolls and such. It's much closer to Ultima or Divine Divinity. I also love the feeling of advancement you get. Being a level 35 mage and killing dozens of orcs at once is enough to make you cry after quicksaving before every wolf at level 4. I'd highly recommend it to any RPG fan, remembering that the controls and voice acting are terrible. You can clearly tell that Xardas the necromancer is Jack the sailor doing a pirate voice. As for Risen, the demo has hooked me and I'll be getting it soon.

By: Railick

Railick — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:10:31 +0000

What is their deal with orcs? Why do they hate orcs so much? They need to come up with something more original than fecking orcs all the time. Orcs this orcs that. Wow, LORT,Warhammer orcs orcs orcs i'm getting sick of freaking orcs anyone else? I Mean , I love my orcs as much as the next dude but come on does ever single game ever made have to have orcs and goblins in it?

By: Flimgoblin

Flimgoblin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:48:46 +0000

After buying a new graphics card to just about get Gothic 3 running at FPS instead of SPF (bearing in mind the computer was about 2 years newer than the game…) I quite enjoyed playing it for the first two towns.

Then I got to the third town and it started feeling a bit samey… so I decided to run north, go to another distant town and see what I could see.

And once again there was the same bunch of rebels hanging around nearby with some quests to kill some orcs, the orcs offering quests to do bad things to the rebels.

And the same at the next town.

I uninstalled it.

I’m waiting to hear from someone who’s played this through whether it’s better than Gothic 3 – Gothic 1 and 2 were really good (though I couldn’t stand the original Gothic 2 campaign after playing the expansion pack section)

By: dingo

dingo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:33:00 +0000

The example of humor is not that great to be honest.
The main joke is that it’s a parody of a very famous German tv icon from older times who did very popular animal films. The easily recognized voice is spot-on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Grzimek
That person brought the “Wild Life” into German homes (on tv-sets) and got fantastic viewer ratings.

Of course this is something that is totally unknown and not funny to anyone either too young to having watched his captivating shows back then or not having lived in Germany at those times.

By: UK_John

UK_John — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:40:33 +0000

Low review scores for Gothic games, and next including Risen, because we now have dumbed down reviewers and gaming sites with spotty teenage staff grown up mostly on dumbed down console gaming. The more reviewers say this game is too bloody hard, the more keen I will be to buy it, as an old time PC gamer fed up with dumbed down games. No wonder PC gamers are going back to DOS RPG’s using DOSBox, (after all, that utility has had 5 million downloads!!!) given the state of hardcore PC gaming!.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:09:53 +0000

And I have the feeling you’ve leapt to your own presumptions rather than calmly reading the part where I openly say all I’ve had the chance to see of the game so far is a short time with the preview code.
It’s not a review, it doesn’t even slightly claim to be a review , and the assertion that I didn’t ever take the game seriously stems only from your presumptive mind. Remember RPS is essentially unpaid. We can’t spend every moment of our spare time playing every piece of code we get for hours, otherwise we’d only get up two posts a week.

By: toro

toro — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:04:02 +0000

@DM: Sorry to bust your bubble but please do a review of this site, there is a lot of hype. After all, this is a site related to gaming and hype is certainly not a bad thing in the right quantity or for the right reason. I’m not asking for more hype, for that we have gamespot and the others.
However my issue is that after reading the article I have the feeling that Alec never took seriously the game. Now this raises more questions than answers and I don’t have the time for another exercise in futility. Peace. ;)

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:32:37 +0000

Definitely sounds like Gothic to me. I mean, this is the series where the first game is set in a prison camp.

By: Urthman

Urthman — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:42:32 +0000

An article about this game over at RPGWatch quotes Piranha Bytes as saying that Risen differs from the Gothic games in that they’ve put more love and emphasis on rewarding exploration. Which is sort of like Rocksteady saying they’re going to make another Batman game except this time it will have really solid combat.

I’m trying to say that exploration was one of the things they did best in the Gothic games, so if they’re really concentrating on their strength in that way, then I am officially excited about this game.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:02:02 +0000

Gone and pre-ordered this. I actually enjoyed Gothic 3 despite how broken it was so I think I’ll be safe with this one. That and I’m suffering from such a gaming drought at the moment.

Ah well, Darklands will tide me over for another week.